Monday, if you missed it at SFFILM's DocFest last weekend, Amazon worker labor organization doc Union returns for one night with producer Samantha Curley and union leader Chris Smalls in person at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, where you can stick around for Wes Craven's New Nightmare after, the Roxie's RoxCine series presents Mosquita y Mari as part of Cinematic OGs, a spotlight on SF-based filmmakers curated by Vero Majano, the Odyssey Film Institute presents Scream (on 35mm) at the Balboa, Ellie Vanderlip returns to the 4 Star with a live-scored, horror-themed, multi-projector performance, and Psycho is at the Lark.
Tuesday, Basement presents eXistenZ on VHS at the 4 Star, Onibaba is at the Roxie, Last Night In Soho at the Balboa, Creepshow at the New Parkway, The Wicker Man (1973, repeating Wednesday) at the Lark, and our featured screening this week, The Masque of the Red Death (on 35mm) is this week's Terror Tuesday pick at Drafthouse.
Wednesday, Canyon Cinema presents Robert Nelson’s Suite California (on 16mm) at the Roxie, Roberto Gavaldón's classic Mexican fable, Macario, is at the Smith Rafael, Amanda Strong is at BAMPFA alongside collaborator Bracken Hanuse Corlett to present Stop-Motion Storyteller, a selection of her animated shorts (and also gives an artist's talk on Saturday), Dark Angel: The Ascent is at Drafthouse, Halloween at the Balboa, The Crow at the Vogue, and the Arab Film Festival heads to the New Parkway with two short film programs, including From Ground Zero, a collection of 22 short films from Gazan filmmakers.
Thursday, the Vogue has a classic horror marathon of Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, Frankenstein, and Dracula, the Stanford's first double feature of the week is Val Lewton's classic I Walked With a Zombie and Fritz Lang's Ministry of Fear (on 35mm, repeating Friday), Hausu, Twilight, and The Exorcist are at the New Parkway, The Guest is at Drafthouse, The Shining at the Lark, Jean-Pierre Melville's Le samouraï at BAMPFA, the Roxie presents The Bad Sleepbomb Trip Experience, and the Arab Film Festival presents Egyptian filmmaker Mohammed Shebl's campy 80s horror, Al-a'weeza (The Curse), at Artists' Television Access.
Friday, a Sergei Parajanov Centennial Celebration kicks off at BAMPFA with The Color of Pomegranates, the Arab Film Festival returns to the New Parkway and continues through the weekend, French Cinema Days brings a weekend mini-fest to the Vogue with a selection of recent French films, The Birthday is at Drafthouse, Faust with a live score is at the 4 Star, Tokyo Drifter (repeats Saturday) at the Balboa, Black Box Diaries and La Cocina open at the Roxie, and the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum presents a weekend-long series celebrating National Native American Heritage Month, beginning with new doc Red Fever.
Saturday, at the Roxie, CiNEOLA and RoxCine co-present a weekend series of Colombian documentaries beginning with a matinee showing of La Laguna Del Solado co-presented with SF Cinematheque and followed by a live, virtual Q&A with director Pablo Álvarez-Mesa, and Black Box Diaries director Shiori Ito is in person for a matinee, BAMPFA hosts a Sergei Parajanov Symposium in the afternoon and continues their contemporary Cuban cinema series with Voices of Displacement, another selection of short films, French Cinema Days presents Christoph Honoré's latest, Marcello Mio, and a sold-out screening of Little Girl Blue with Marion Cotillard and director Mona Achache in attendance at the Vogue, the Niles's Native American Heritage Month celebration continues with 1998's Smoke Signals, the 1920 silent film Daughter of Dawn, and the 1928, early sync-sound film, Ramona, The Parallax View is at Drafthouse, Convoy at the Balboa, the Rialtos Elmwood and Cerrito present free family matinees of Chicken Run, this week's Popcorn Palace at the 4 Star is The Iron Giant (repeating Sunday), and the Stanford's weekend double feature is the reconstructed 1998 cut of Touch of Evil and the San Francisco-set Sudden Fear, starring Joan Crawford, Gloria Grahame, and Jack Palance (both on 35mm, repeating Sunday).
Sunday, TotalSF leads a bike ride across San Francisco culminating in a screening of Breaking Away at the 4 Star, who also screen Chet Baker doc Let's Get Lost, the new adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo and the Adèle Exarchopoulos-starring L'Amour Ouf continue French Cinema Days at the Vogue, BAMPFA has more Cuban cinema, Calls from Moscow, followed by documentary portrait Sergei Parajanov: The Rebel with director Patrick Cazals in person, Shiori Ito arrives at the Smith Rafael Film Center to present another matinee of Black Box Diaries, Spaceballs (on 16mm) is at the Balboa, The Best Years of Our Lives at the Lark, John Wick at the Presidio, SF Cinematheque remembers Bill Viola with a screening of his early film Hatsu Yume at Counterpulse, and Stephin Merritt and Daniel Handler are in person to celebrate the 25th anniversary of 69 Love Songs with Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields at the Roxie, whose Columbian doc series continues with Nosotras and Habla el territorio, a selection of short films, with filmmakers in person for Q&As after both screenings.
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